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Patented Oct. 22, 1895.

IN VE N T08 A TTORNEYS AN DREW EGRAHAM. PHOTOUTHQWASHINGTONLDC llivrrno'rn'rns SAMUEL J. MURRAY, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO THEUNITED STATES PRINTING COMPANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

PROCESS OF MANUFACTURING PLAYING-CARDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 548,216, dated October22, 1895.

Application filed July 12, 1894. Serial No. 517,282. (No specimens.)

2b all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL J. MURRAY, a resident of Indianapolis, Marioncounty, and State of Indiana, have invented an Improved 5 Process ofManufacturing Playing-Cards, of

which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the manufacture of playing-cards, and has forits object to produce playing-cards from paper in the roll in to a rapidand economical manner.

Hitherto it has been customary to print playing-cards upon sheets ofcardboard, from which the individual cards were afterward punched. Thisprocess required many manipulations 0f the sheet, and my invention isdesigned to obviate the disadvantages incident to such manipulations.

To this end my invention consists in the method or process ofmanufacturing playingcards from paper in the roll in contradistinctionto sheet-printing, as will be hereinafter fully described and set forthand more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings 1 have illus- 2 5 trated diagram maticallyan apparatus for carrying out my invention, such parts only as aregermane to the operations of manipulating the web being shown.

Figure 1 shows a pasting, pressing, and

c sizing mechanism which may beemployed by me; and Fig. 2 illustratesthe carrying and drying mechanisms, one figure being a continuation ofthe other.

In practicing my process I first take webs 5 of paper and enamel them onone side and print the designs for the faces or backs of the cards onthe enameled side of one or more of the webs. These webs, for thepurposes of convenience in handling, are thereupon reeled into rolls. Ithen take two or more of these rolls A B and, taking the web of paper ab from each, paste the said webs into one continuous web by means of anysuitable pasting mechanism, such as is shown in Fig. 1, wherein C is apaste-vat, D is a paste-roller revolving therein, and E is apasting-roller which takes the paste from the roller D and applies it toone face of one of the webs, as a. The webs a I) pass around andbetweenrollers F G, which, subjecting the same to pressure, paste them togetherwith their unenameled surfaces in contact to form a pasted web W.

From the rollers F G the pasted web passes around and between series vofrollers H J K L M N O P, which subject the said pasted web to a graduallyt-increasing pressure, which has the effectof forcing out theair-bubbles from between the webs composing the pasted web and graduallyforcing the paste into the body of the paper, which is of a bibulouschar- 6o actor, and thus, produces a finished elastic web.

A further effect of the action of the rollers on the Web is to improvethe enameled surface of the pasted web by a species of calenderingaction. From the last of the pressurerollers the pasted web W passes toa vat Q and under a roller R, which roller is suspended in such a manneras to bear upon the paper and to form a tension device therefor.

In some varieties of cards it will be found advantageous to size the webat this stage of the process. Hence I may fill the vat Q with size, ifdesired, or may simply use the roller as a tension device, at my option.From the 7 vat Q the web passes to a moistening device of suitableconstruction, shown in the present instance as consisting of a tank S,with which communicates a strip or strips of felt s, which felt removeswater from the tank by capillary 8o attraction and transfers it to theedges of the pasted web, thus moistening the edges, which are afterwardpressed down by the drawing- \V\W rollers T T, which rollers arepreferably faced with india-rubber and run at a somewhat greater speedthan the pasting-rolls. From the drawing-rolls the Web passes to atransferring device of suitable construction, shown in the presentinstance as sprocket-chains U U, passing over sprocket-wheels V andprovided 0 with lifts n, which lifts serve to remove sticks 25 from areceptacle X, which sticks serve to engage and carry the Web W infestoons to the drying-room Z. From the last of the sprocket-wheels Vthe sticks are dropped in to 5 a suitable trough or receptacle Z, andthe web passes between tension-rollers r 'r and-into the drying-room Z,which drying-room is provided with a suitable heating device Z androllers 2, around which the web is carried to'and fro in thedrying-room, whence it issues completely dried.

Throughout the process it will be noticed that the web, after leavingthe pasting-rolls, is at all times unwound and at no time are anyenameled surfaces brought in contact with each other by the operationsof manipulating the web. After the web issues from the drying-room it iscut into sheets, which sheets may be finished in any suitable manner,which will, of course, vary with the varying conditions of practice andwhich will depend largely upon whether or not the web has been printedand upon the grade of cards it is desired to produce. Inordinarypractice I cut the web into sheets, print the backs, subject the sheetsto water proofing, powdering, brushing, and plating processes, andfinally cut the individual cards from the sheets.

While I have described the operations and apparatus in positive termsthroughout the specification, I would have it understood that I do not.mean to therebylimit myself to precisely the operations and apparatusdescribed and shown herein, as other and analogous steps, and means forcarrying the same into eifect, will readily suggest themselves to thosewho may desire to enjoy the fruits of my invention.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The process of manufacturing playing.

cards which consists in first enameling a web, pasting another web totheenameled web. and sub ecting the combined webs to an increasingpressure and drying the said compound web while in an unwound condition,substantially the printed web, subjecting the pasted web to graduallyincreasing pressure, drying the web, cutting the web into sheets, thecombined webs being unwound from the time the paste is applied,substantially as described.

4. The process of manufacturing playing cards which consists inenameling a continuous web and printing the design for one side of theplaying cards thereon, then pasting a web on the unprinted side of saidprinted web, subjecting the pasted web to a gradually increasingpressure and drying and cutting the same, the combined webs remainingunwound from the time the paste is applied, and in thereupon cutting thesame into sheets and finishing the sheets, as specified.

5. The process of manufacturing playing cards which consists inenameling a continuous web and printing the designs for the faces of theplaying cards thereon, then pasting another web on the unprinted sideof' the web, subjecting the pasted web to a gradually increasingpressure, drying the same and cutting the same into sheets, the combinedwebs remaining unwound from the time the paste is applied, and inthereupon printing the backs of the playing cards on the sheets andsurface finishing the sheets, substantially as described.

6. The process of manufacturing playing cards which consists inenameling a continuous web and printingthe designs for the faces of theplaying cards. thereon, then pasting another web; on the unprinted sideof the web, subjecting the-pasted web to a gradually increasingpressure, drying the same. and cutting the same into sheets, theoombinedwebs remaining unwound from the time the paste is applied, and inthereupon printing the backs of the playing cards on the sheets andsurface finishing the sheets, and punching outthe individual cards,substantially as described.

JAMES A. WALSH, WILLIAM BEATLEY.

